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May 09, 2007
Coachella: Day 3 (con't) - Willie Nelson, Klaxons, Lily Allen, Air, Ratatat, Rage, Spank Rock
Coachella 2007 Day 3 continued: (04.29)
[Day 3 coverage starts here.]
Coachella: Day 1 (Part 1, 2)
Coachella: Day 2 (Part 1, 2)
Willie Nelson - Coachella stage
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Odd to see Willie on the main stage at Coachella. In old age he's attained such widespread awareness from the public to become an icon bigger than his musical legend. The perfect combination to allow pretty much anything to go down, like a gig at Coachella for example. Low key country tunes made for excellent chill-out music.
Klaxons - Mojave tent
From afar the scene at Klaxons resembled the raves they so badly sentimentalize. Nothing wrong with that.
This is when we broke to catch Air...who never showed so we hiked back to Mojave for...
Lily Allen - Mojave tent
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More reinforcements to my case for being down on the Brits colonizing Coachella. Lily Allen acted like a spoiled amateur with her boorish bragging about forgetting the words to her songs because of a "few spliffs I had earlier." Class A juvenile behavior. Her set was not unlike the excruciating experience I imagine a conversation with Paris Hilton to be like.
Air - Outdoor stage
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More Euro-brattiness, this time in the form of inexcusable tardiness at a fest known for punctual acts from the very late French duo. Our backs sunk into an extended session with the soft grass for everything but "Kelly Watch the Stars" which got the Merry Swankster and his female partner back upright to celebrate the song named for her.
Ratatat - Mojave tent
Like a dovetail from Explosions in the Sky from earlier in the day with more electronics and less analog warmth.
Rage Against the Machine - Coachella stage
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I found everything about Rage's hiatus ending show to be anti-climactic. Not that the hype didn't live up to anything, because the hype was more or less confined to superfans and the media, just that the reunion didn't have the epic "wow look who's back" feeling. We caught the beginning and the end of Rage's set substituting Spank Rock's raunchy house party for the meat of Sunday night's Rage sandwich.
Spank Rock - Gobi tent
While this blog is certaintly not rated PG by any means I also don't feel the need to flagrantly flaunt our first ammendment rights by retyping some of the more ludicrous lyrics of Spank Rock. Actually scratch that...this stuff is golden. (More Spank Rock photos here)
Shout outs to Lindsay Lohan: "Why you showin' them coochie lips"
And the classiest of them all, an ode to the silliest most ridiculous rap lyric I ever heard in my life:
"Hey white girl shake it till my dick turns racist."
Happy Coachella kiddies...see you next year!
Posted by Merry Swankster at May 9, 2007 10:02 PM
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